The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.